Sentences with phrase «in coalmines»

Individual species in trouble were said to be early warning signals, like canaries in coalmines, or small but essential, like rivets in airplanes — the works and windings of natural systems, which no sane tinkerer would cast aside.

Known as «the black drawings», this period is inspired by his experiences drawing in the coalmines in the 1940s and two Seurat drawings in his collection.

The Fitbit anxiety is just the «canary in the coalmine,» an early symptom of the bigger problem.

I'm not sure even Facebook quite understands that — they are the canary in that coalmine.»

In many ways Iceland is the tip of the iceberg — the proverbial canary in the coalmine showing the need to better cope with over-indebted economies.

Qualcomm Ventures is likely the canary in the coalmine for the amount of waste and pet projects there are at Qualcomm.

That is how teenagers fit the role as the canary in the coalmine when they smell death and wasted life.

Elsewhere there are people trying to grow pinot noir, sometimes called wine's canary in the coalmine as it tolerates a narrower band of temperatures.

«This is really, to me, a canary in the coalmine for Governor Cuomo for 2018,» said Cox.

«Trout are one of the best indicators of healthy river ecosystems; they're the aquatic version of the canary in the coalmine,» says NRDC's Theo Spencer.

Corals are the canary in the coalmine for this planetKit Drake responds to our report of an unprecedented fourth...

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He said: «Tropical glaciers are the canaries in the coalmine for our global climate system, as they integrate and respond to most of the key climatological variables — temperature, precipitation, cloudiness, humidity and radiation.»

Julie has learned that children with autism are the «canaries in the coalmine,» informing us that we have too many toxins and nutrient deficiency that have affected our genetic expression, as well as exposure to environmental triggers that are harming the development of our children as well as our health.

The canary in the coalmine is still singing, at least for now.

But by the time the third local yokel makes the same crack, it becomes the canary in the coalmine of a tonally incoherent dark - comedy - drama that doesn't have a clue how to manage its weighty themes and discordant plot.

So I'm happy to let Gen - Y be the canary in the coalmine and sniff out things like The Room and Birdemic, the much - hyped new «worst movies of all time.»

Test scores are the canary in the coalmine at Auer Avenue and dozens of schools like Auer.

Our ethnic minority and economically disadvantaged students were the canaries in the coalmine showing us how high stakes testing diminishes educational quality.

Not only is this big news for General Motors, but can also be seen as the canary in the coalmine for other truckmakers.

The swift erosion of this cornerstone of short term lending for banks and companies is a canary in a coalmine for the economy, analysts said.

Shelters are the proverbial canary in the coalmine for their communities.

Companion animals and their diet - related diseases are the proverbial canaries in the coalmine and guinea pigs in market - testing laboratories.

Domoic acid intoxication of sea lions: a renewed need for the canary in the coalmine.

And we would do well to heed their creative alarm — after all, Theresa Bayer said it best: «Artists are the proverbial canaries in the coalmine.

Lucas Lenglet's solo exhibitions include Das Haus Goethe, with Suzanne van de Ven, Goethe Institut Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2012); No cage, invaliden1, Berlin, Germany (2011); A canary in a coalmine, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2008); Carte Blanch au Commissariat: Lucas Lenglet - Inaccessibility and Hierarchic Connectors, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2007).

They may be the proverbial «canaries in the coalmine» of our ocean.

This situation — which has already spurred the dismissal of Greenland's foreign minister — could be the canary in the coalmine signaling that climate change will further complicate the already contentious politics of military bases.

Hannam is often the canary in the coalmine (er, wind farm) when there is a sense that public belief in man - made global warming is flagging.

The polar regions are particularly sensitive to small rises in the annual average temperature, they are sometimes referred to as «the canary in the coalmine» in that they show changes long before they can be seen elsewhere in the world.

He said: «Tropical glaciers are the canaries in the coalmine for our global climate system, as they integrate and respond to most of the key climatological variables — temperature, precipitation, cloudiness, humidity and radiation.»

The problem with the canary in the coalmine metaphor is that it tends to understate the seriousness of the problem.

«The period can be the canary in the coalmine,» said Dr. Katharine White, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University's School of Medicine.

Not exact matches

Unlike the sad fate of the coalmine canary, who perished at the earliest indications of trouble, our credit canary is singing with renewed vigor as demand for its services rises as the poison in the credit atmosphere intensifies.

English scientist John Scott Haldane was the first to introduce canaries into coalmines in the 1890s.

It is created in that way in order that materials could be conveyed under coalmine walls.

Named after labour and national service minister Ernest Bevin, the Bevin Boys were tasked to work in Britain's coalmines between 1943 and 1948.

Watershed groups near Pittsburgh, for instance, know to look out for discharge from old coalmines, which wouldn't be a factor in other parts of the state.

In Jharia, famous for its rich coal resources, 700,000 people are exposed to toxic smoke that seeps from the ground as fires from opencast coalmines burn around the clock.

It is created in that way in order that materials could be conveyed under coalmine walls.

She made only one fiction feature, the coalmining drama Blue Scar, set in south - west Wales.

Adani is an Indian mining corporation proposing to dig a giant coalmine in the Galilee basin, Queensland.

A journey into the Blue Mountains by rail allows you to travel on the superb Katoomba Scenic railroad, which was originally built to service a coalmine located in the Jamison Valley.

The former of these works was commissioned by the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen — a gallery set in one of Germany's coalmining regions — and appears as a huge mound of black coal, interspersed with red diodes, which is encircled by another part of the commission — Time Train to the Holocaust (2008).

«This is and was a memorable moment for the mine workers in Limburg, which forces us to remember the 100 years of coalmining in Europe, the social struggle of the coal miners and to acknowledge the impact the closure of coalmining and the conversion processes afterwards had on our current industrial and social changes and structures,» Hedwig Fijen, Director of Manifesta, told A.i.A. via email.

Mine fires extend beyond Pennsylvania's borders; they are common in the United States» coal regions and other coalmining industrial nations including India, China, Russia, and Australia.

A highly orchestrated, secretly foreign - funded group of Australian environmental activists opposing the $ 16 billion Adani coalmine in Queensland has «dampened» Indian investment interest in Australia and received heated criticism from the federal Coalition and Queensland Labor governments.

Others named in the 2015 invitation included Tennessee Valley Authority president Bill Johns, Christopher C. Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Energy & Environment Legal Institute, and «the owners and chief executives of coalmining and energy companies» including Alliance Resource Partners, Alpha Natural Resources, Consol Energy, Drummond Company, and United Coal Company.

The first of the series was about polar bears, which they referred to as the canaries in the global - warming coalmine, ignoring the fact that polar bear numbers are actually the highest since records began.

EXPLOSIVE economic modelling warns that the carbon tax could force eight black coalmines to close, costing nearly 3000 jobs in regional NSW and more than 1100 jobs in Queensland in its first three years.